PHP: top paths and mail question

[ibeblunt]

This might sound dumb at first but I've been trying to figure this out all day. Well for 3 hours.

You know how in regular HTML you can type:
/images/spacer.gif

and it will be the same as:
http://yoursite.com/images/spacer.gif

Well, when I do that in PHP I get an error. I know in Cold Fusion, you had to define it in the CFAdmin, which was a pain.

So does anyone have any advice on this?

and since I got your attention, how do I get the mail to stop putting "sohh@sohh1.sohh.com" the FROM field in the mail?

[mad-onion]

In PHP when you have a / at the start of a *path* name that path is relative to the server root.

So /images/spacer.gif might be pointing to
C:/images/spacer.gif

I think

[ibeblunt]

Right...

'cause I really hate doing:

../../images

I like to go to the top of the site and just come down.

There's got to be a way around this.

Steven

[mad-onion]

With includes, or whenever you are using files with PHP use the entire path.
It will be something like
/home/username/www/folder/file.php
Thats how i always do it unless the files are in the same dir as the one calling them.
Its easiest in my opinion.

[freakysid]

Originally posted by mad-onion
With includes, or whenever you are using files with PHP use the entire path.
It will be something like
/home/username/www/folder/file.php
Thats how i always do it unless the files are in the same dir as the one calling them.
Its easiest in my opinion.

You should check the documentation on this because I'm just a *total* newbie to PHP (just wrote a "hello world" last night in fact!) but doesn't $DOCUMENT_ROOT provide the path to your HTML document root so that:

/home/username/www/folder/file.php

could be written as

$path = "$DOCUMENTROOT . "//folder//file.php"

Is this correct?

[freakysid]

I must be dyslexic - I'm always getting "/" and "]" confused...


"$DOCUMENT_ROOT . /folder/filename";

[mad-onion]

Sometimes DOCUMENT_ROOT doesnt work how you'd expect on other servers. I have alwasy found it is is safest to use the entire path. Maybe its just one of my silly addictions.

Now well wait for freddy to come and shoot me down like im evil....welcome to sitepoint :-)